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Anita Hill and Kerry Washington both know the power of restraint.
For Hill, whose accusations of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee (now Justice) Clarence Thomas are the centerpiece of HBO’s sturdy Confirmation (Saturday, 8 p.m. ET/PT, *** out of four), restraint became a watchword. In the midst of the media frenzy during Thomas’ 1991 confirmation hearings, faced with senatorial inquisitors who attacked everything from her morals to her memory to her sanity, she maintained a quiet, dignified calm that refuted every attempt to label her as “hysterical,” the typical attack used on women who dared to speak up.
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